The call for proposals for the next Berkshire Conference of Women Historians is up here. Also as seen here and here.
I attended the last Berks conference in 2008, and had a really excellent experience. Good scholarship, good opportunities to meet people, and much less fraught with professional angst and status-seeking than many other conferences. I'd also especially like to encourage medievalists to consider participating. It is easy for large conferences to seem dominated by the modernists, and I think it's important for scholars of the ancient, medieval, and early modern world to be visible participants. There is a lot of time yet to think about submission, as the deadline is March 1.
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Clio's Disciple: thanks for the link and for advertising the next Berks. I think it's vital for medievalists and other pre-modern scholars to be involved in the Berks. How else can we develop any sense of patriarchal equilibrium (as Judith Bennett argues)? I want to emphasize that this Berks, like the 2008 Berks includes language that specifically invites and gives pride of place to scholars pre-1800. From the 2011 CFP: "Preference will be given to discussions of any topic across national boundaries and to work that addresses sexuality, race, and labor in any context, with special consideration for pre-modern (ancient, medieval, early modern) periods.)"
Yes, the conference will be more modern than not, and more North American-history focused than not. (This is I think perhaps inevitable, given the fact that it's a U.S.-based Anglophone conference and given the zeal for modern history across the American historical profession these days.) But, it's a great place to meet and connect with other pre-modern women's and gender historians and historians of sexuality.
We hope to see you, and more of your colleagues, in Amherst in 2011.
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Thanks for pointing that out, Ann! Now, fellow medievalists, let's make our work worthy of that special consideration, shall we?
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